At 3 in the morning, I turned to AI for comfort. That’s my first mistake

LWaking up awake At three o’clock at night, I asked Chatgpt: “Am I real?”

The question was not born because of curiosophical or philosophical interest. It emerges with a deserving of terror. I’m worried about my future and the fast changes that are about to happen – graduation, university, turning home. Slowly build upcoming changes in the end are not separated by the whole concern – not only in my future but, finally in my birth.

As I ran, I am not interested in dealing with, or even acceptance, insecurity. I’m only interested in a fast recovery, pushing the chatgpt to meet my concerns. For several seconds, Chatgt describes a variety of philosophical views about birth and existence – all from Humegegger and Nietzsche and Nietzsche-Summuming in a manner sentences in a centients in a centients.

I’m embarrassed I’m back in a chatbot for help. Of course, reading the whole Discourse by the way At 3 o’clock is not an option, but why didn’t I choose to read a short role from an actual philosopher? Why not a five-minute YouTube video of a professor or other trained authority?

The answer, of course, simple. These options require time and patience. They need me to feel my fear over a longer period of time. More then, they need a form of critical mind to join some human shares – like insecurity, and self-reflection – that at a later time, time cannot be reached.

Within short time, I feel relief with the possibility of having answers to these uncertainties, with something that can be quick answers to difficult questions. But I really don’t know. The true nature of these complex philosophy views and their application in my life has not been revealed. It’s easy, my fears came back, because this uncertainty – in my future and who I am and wants to be unable to be. Fast recovery only gives temporary comfort, because it seems that my insecurities may have eases answers, in the same way that makes it a lot of questions. But this feeling of mediation is only temporary. Pains in person are not technological.

I see this passion – the need for instant mediation, drown, and avoid psychic diseases – myself and almost all around me. People begin to trust quickly with technology to deal with each uncomfortable mind or feel – the most memnt tool that does not end up with human bury).

I believe that this quick recovery threatens our mental health, relationships, and creativity. Tungod kay kini nga mga shortcut wala magtugot kanato sa paglihok, pagdawat, o pagsabut sa atong mga kasakit – gilubong lamang nila kini, ihawa kini, o pag-undang sa kanila, o pag-undang sa kanila, o paglangan. So what can be done to prevent this unsatisfactory need to bury our human person under a group of distractive media?

Niltudies found Those rates of teen depression rates from the early years of 2010, consistent with enlarging smartphones. A study of 2019 is aware that teenagers spend more than three hours per day of social media “may have high risk for mental health problems,” including symptoms of depression and anxiety.

The link between the bad mental health and the use of social media is often traced to compare body types, as people with attractive aspects of their lives. While it is certainly playing a paper-social media often does not include more difficult, mundane, or non-proper parts of everyday life – I believe that runs deep.

The more time with my friends, family, and I spend social media, the more I noticed a pattern: If stress, or sadness emerges with feelings – we are sitting with feelings – we didn’t sit with them. Reflex is not to be processed or faced but avoid, to lose unlimited scroll. And we do more, the more automatically it does. Doomscrollling is not a habit; This is a mechanism for copying.

The pursuit of this immediate relief distorts our understanding of human pain. Improvement, uncertainty, sadness, terror, and loneliness do not feel like natural parts of life – they feel unstoppable. Instead of sitting on these emotions, instead of working through them, we scroll. Not to withdraw, not relax, but to faint. And we are more faint, more alien and can’t stop our own feelings. We will not process it. We also don’t know it. We have lost the ability to be with ourselves.

The uninterrupted social media speed leaves a small room for self-reflection or real count of our own solitude. Art, on the other hand, offers what social media cannot do. Reading, watching movies, listening to music – these experiences slow us down, inviting us to sit with the inconvenience to become human. They allow our pain, instead of weakening and burying it.

Because art serves to fill the gaps inside our experience – to put words or images or sounds we can’t do with ourselves. During the fear and uncertainty of my future, I found great relief of Samuel Beckett’s tragringomic Murphy and Virginia Woolf In the lighthouse. About why that time is very hard for me so I can’t stop what’s wrong: Why I feel such fear, Why I feel such confusion. I feel like myself, and the characters of two novels also feel the same way. They too, struggling with uncertainty, with intention, with meaning how to move in the world. The writers in these novels have words for these experiences, words that, in time, I don’t.

Art does not only help us to reconcile fractures within ourselves. It also brings distances between us. We are allowed, even though short, to insert another person’s experience. It doesn’t matter if the person on the other side of the world, different from age, or even from a different time period: we get a window in their world. To do so, artworks develop. We began to understand why people acted on what they did, to know that their struggles and happiness were not different from ourselves. By participating in stories, music, films – by immersing ourselves in true art expression – we will connect not only others but our shared people.

Familiar Pisor centuriesOne of the most important arts roles is empathy cultivation. Fiction, especially, there is an important part: Studies show that reading stories can develop our social recognition, which helps us to understand what others think and feel better. It is also linked to further empathy. If we share in the art, we cannot just notice; We have adopted views, emotions, and experiences above ourselves. This deeper connection definition can motivate us to move, take care, to help people with pain – something bad encouragement.

One can reason that social media also have art experiences and real humanities. And while that is true, simply met these moments is not enough to prevent the suspicious effects of doomscroll. Although we can stumble something that makes sense – something that connects us to ourselves or others – it’s easy to be destroyed, buried beneath an endless stream of new content. Any resonance that it is lost, replaced immediately. Doomscrolling does not make space for reflection, for sitting with an idea or feeling. It does not offer or immerse the real art engagement provides – the class that allows us to process, understand, to feel.

I am not suggesting social media a powerful harm should be avoided at all costs. It has benefits and undeniable inserted into our daily life. But I want to challenge its role as a speedy recovery for inconvenience to become human. If we use it to temporarily escape pain, we lose our ability to allow or understand it.

I came to see AI in the same way. Just as I believe social media should not be a feeling of feeling, AI does not need a skipping of thinking. The biggest questions we face – and don’t have to be easy, easy answers. Art is one of the ways we share in these questions, blinding them, and again to them, and deepen our understanding. These questions arise from a clear experience of the person in the world, and so the search for answers should also remain in person.

Disease, uncertainty, surprise – these are not problems with technology, and AI, unable to real interpretation, unable to make a voice in the complexity of human life. Only the person who man has made.

Danica Popovic is the 2023 winter spier story winner of the Amazon Canada’s youth first novel award and a Scholastic Arts Gold Medalist. His short story was published in walrus and somewhere.

Tianchen Luo (Tianchenart.format.com) an artist who now studies Toronto. He specializes in recording storyboarding, design concepts, and illustrations.